Pamela Jones (NASA)
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Pamela Jones was the head of the Program Services Department for the Lunar and Planetary Institute
. She had served in the program committee for Conference on the Origin of the Moon in 1984.
Lunar and Planetary Institute
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a scientific research institute dedicated to study of the solar system, its formation, evolution, and current state. The Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association and is supported by the Science Mission Directorate of the National...
. She had served in the program committee for Conference on the Origin of the Moon in 1984.
Honors
- The asteroidAsteroidAsteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
4852 Pamjones4852 Pamjones4852 Pamjones is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered by Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory on May 15, 1977. It is named for Pamela Jones, a member of the Lunar and Planetary Institute at NASA.-External links:*...
was named in her honor in 1992 for "her organization of many conferences and contributions to planetary science". - She was also voted as life member at the Meteoritical SocietyMeteoritical SocietyThe Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote research and education in planetary science with emphasis on studies of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the solar system.The...
in 1993.